https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Sqoop-job-failing-with-DSQuotaExceededException/m-p/161792#M124171 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/16139/carolelliott.html" nodeid="16139">@Carol Elliott</A> actually see if you can use the -D or -conf options</P><PRE>-conf &lt;configuration file&gt; specify an application configuration file -D &lt;property=value&gt; use value for given property</PRE><P>The <CODE>-conf</CODE>, <CODE>-D</CODE>, <CODE>-fs</CODE> and <CODE>-jt</CODE> arguments control the configuration and Hadoop server settings. For example, the <CODE>-D mapred.job.name=&lt;job_name&gt;</CODE> can be used to set the name of the MR job that Sqoop launches, if not specified, the name defaults to the jar name for the job - which is derived from the used table name.</P><P>so in same fashion, try </P><PRE>sqoop import -D hive.exec.scratchdir=...</PRE><P><A href="https://sqoop.apache.org/docs/1.4.6/SqoopUserGuide.html#_using_generic_and_specific_arguments">https://sqoop.apache.org/docs/1.4.6/SqoopUserGuide.html#_using_generic_and_specific_arguments</A></P> Sat, 18 Mar 2017 03:14:35 GMT aervits 2017-03-18T03:14:35Z